A lot has happened since my last post! I received funding for a 1-year postdoc from the NSF, via the Computing Research Association’s CIFellows program. I’ll be at Northwestern University, in the Center for Technology and Social Behavior, starting in September. I had been waiting to post about this until the list of recipients was released at cifellows.org, but that hasn’t [...]
Posts under ‘writing’
move your mittens
at our student lab group meeting today, we talked about writing. most of us are at the point where we’re working on writing either proposals or theses, and we got together to commiserate and give each other advice. when we planned the meeting, i felt a bit like it was a case of the blind [...]
dissertation abstract
this post is inspired by libby’s dissertation abstract post earlier this evening. i initially wrote the abstract below for a talk that i’ll be giving next week. it isn’t as enjoyable to read as libby’s, but my writing style is a bit more matter-of-fact i think. things are going well at the moment — and [...]
home again
we’re back from vacation! not the best trip ever, with a bout of food poisoning, damp rainy weather for camping, and leg injuries for both me and ursus. but we saw some beautiful scenery and enjoyed some great hiking when the weather was good! and, even better, we found out our CSCW paper was accepted. [...]
a rose by any other name
i find it ironic that here i am, researching how people choose names for files and folders, and struggling with what to call the category of systems i am studying. i’ve tried out quite a few:
online repository
shared archive
group information management system
shared file repository
shared repository
shared information space (courtesy of “Let’s Shack Up: Getting Serious about GIM“)
group [...]
